A DEVASTATED victim of a bogus love guru has told how she paid £20,000 to the fraudster to be reunited with her lost sweetheart.

The suicidal young woman turned to Ferrari-driving Niem Mohammed, 41, during a heartbreaking battle with her family over an arranged marriage.

The conman was jailed for 18 months at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Wednesday after being found guilty of 11 charges of fraud.

The father-of-four had claimed he could use psychic powers to solve personal problems and help people find love, charging customers thousands of pounds.

But Mohammed was snared after Sandwell Trading Standards officers tracked down his victims and brought a prosecution against him.

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“I’m delighted he’s been jailed and to get this far is amazing,” one brave victim told the Sunday Mercury. “But 18 months is nothing, he will be back out soon.

“He took a lot of money off me, but I am able to rebuild my life.

‘‘The people I feel most sorry for are those that he promised he would help have children.’’

The woman, aged in her 20s, first contacted the love guru in 2005 after her conservative Asian family reacted with fury at the discovery she had a secret boyfriend.

They had planned an arranged marriage for her with a man in Pakistan and the conflict led to the end of her relationship. “I was under death threats from my family to get married abroad,” the victim said.

“My parents kept me under lock and key and only allowed me out of the house to go to work and come straight back.

“I was clinically depressed and suicidal and that’s when a friend passed me Niem Mohammed’s details. I got sucked in from there on.

“He promised me he could make everything better and get my ex-boyfriend back into my life.

‘‘I was desperately hurting and incredibly vulnerable and I fell for it completely.”

The woman, who used to work in the service industry, only met Cheshire-based Mohammed once.

But she spoke to him every day on the phone while taking out loans with her bank to keep paying for her “treatment”.

For two years the shameless conman, who also owned a Bentley, would tell her a date when he could see all her problems disappearing. Repeatedly the day would come – but nothing would change.

“I used to ring up and wail at him,’’ she said. ‘‘It felt like he was my lifeline and he would calm me down until the next day.

“He would keep me hanging on for weeks and months, but then nothing would change.

“Overall, he took about £20,000 off me. I just kept asking the bank for more and they kept giving me more.”

Then, after spending three months bedridden after a nervous breakdown in 2008, the victim eventually broke free from the fraudtster and began rebuilding her life.

She said: “I just saw sense after that, it was either die at home or leave.

“I left home and two years on I have had no contact with my parents.

“They don’t know where I live and they don’t care much for where I live, or whether I am dead or alive.

“It is now very hard for me to love or trust anyone, because the people I loved and trusted were not there for me.”